The organ that pumps blood throughout the body. It is composed of muscle, muscle cells; these cells contain mitochondria and has an outer layer of called the pericardium.
What is the heart?
100
clear straw colored substance composed of water and dissolved substances.
What is Plasma?
100
The wall the separates the left and right ventricles and prevents blood from mixing.
What is the septum?
100
Thickening and loss of elasticity of the artery walls.
What is arteriosclerosis?
200
Cardiac
pulmonary
Systemic
What is the 3 major circuits of blood vessels?
200
Is the largest blood vessel in the body and leads away from the heart and only carries deoxygenated blood.
What is the Aorta?
200
Fibrogen
Globulin
Albumin
What is the 3 main forms of proteins in blood?
200
pumping chambers that pump blood from the heart to the arteries. The right side pumps blood to the lungs, the left side pumps blood to the rest of the body.
What is the left and right ventricles?
200
Another name for high blood pressure, the heart works overtime to pump blood from the heart and through the blood vessels and this weakening and over working of the heart can result in a heart attack or stroke.
What is hypertension?
300
Circulation that takes place within the heart.
What is Cardiac circulation?
300
The place where nutrients are exchanged between the bloodstream and the body cells.
What is the capillaries?
300
There are 300,000 per cubic millimeter, produced in the bone marrow and are cell fragments. They help clot blood.
What is Platelets?
300
collecting chambers of oxyen rich blood on the right side and deoxygenated blood on the left.
What is the left and right atria?
300
A valve that fails to open properly can restrict blood flow and produce a abnormal sound and rhythm.
What is a heart murmur?
400
carries blood to and from the kidneys and removes nitrogenous wastes from the kidneys.
What is Renal systemic circulation?
400
This organ is responsible for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide with the blood vessels leading away from the heart.
What are the lungs?
400
These cells help defend the body against disease by producing antibodies.They are produced in the bone marrow and lymphatic tissue and contain a nucleus.
What is white blood cells?
400
these prevent the back flow of blood. Bicuspid, Tricuspid, Pulmonary, and Aortic semilunar valve
What is heart valves?
400
The sudden death of the heart muscle.
What is Myocardial infraction (heart attack)
500
the smallest blood vessels that lead into the capillaries,
What is the arterioles?
500
Returns blood to the upper portions of the body.
What is the superior Vena Cava?
500
Transports carbon dioxide from the body cells to the lungs.
What is red blood cells?
500
This vein pumps blood to the lower part of the body.
What is the inferior vena cava?
500
Chest pains from a partial blockage of coronary arteries due to athosclerosis. Low blood supply to the heart.